Wednesday (September 11): Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra, is appointed as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. He has taken over charge today. He has vast experience in both domestic as well as international policy making and administration and has handled major assignments.
Dr Mishra, a Ph.D holder in Economics/Development Studies from the University of Sussex, had completed M.A. in Development Economics at the University of Sussex as also M.A. in Economics with a first class at the Delhi School of Economics.
His work experience in the management of programmes relating to agriculture, disaster management, power sector, infrastructure financing, and regulatory issues is widely appreciated and he has an outstanding career profile comprising research, publications, policy formulation and programme/project management.
His international experience includes research and academic work for over four years at the Institute of Development Studies (UK), negotiation and execution of Asian Development Bank and World Bank projects. Moreover recently, he was conferred with the United Nations SASAKAWA Award 2019, the most prestigious international award in disaster management.
